Ideology and institutional change: The case of the English National Planning Policy Framework

Shepherd, Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8711-5542 2021. Ideology and institutional change: The case of the English National Planning Policy Framework. Planning Theory and Practice 22 (4) , 519–536. 10.1080/14649357.2021.1942528

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Abstract

This paper deploys a discursive institutionalist framework to explore how various categories of ideas – from ideology, to programme, to policy – interact to shape the planning policymaking process. Using the emergence of the 2012 National Planning Policy Framework in England as a case study, the role of the political ideology of the leadership of a political party (as distinct from, but related to, the broader category of ‘neoliberalism’) in shaping and legitimising planning reform is analysed. It is shown that it is not only the political ideological legacy of a political party and how it melds with the prevailing paradigmatic orthodoxy (such as neoliberalism) that matters in framing planning reform, but that the way in which ideas are communicated and consulted on in the policymaking process is also significant.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	1464-9357
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	2 March 2022
Date of Acceptance:	8 June 2021
Last Modified:	24 May 2023 21:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/147958

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